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The Japanese guru of metafiction, Yasutaka Tsutsui is a novelist, playwright, literary critic, actor, and musician. Born in Osaka in 1934, he was educated at Doshisha University in Kyoto, where he majored in aesthetics and art. In 1960, he collaborated with his three brothers to start the science-fiction fanzine, NULL. Tsutsui published his first short story, "O-Tasuke," in the detective-fiction magazine Hoseki. In 1962, he returned to publishing science fiction. In the late 196os and early 197os, Tsutsui was nominated several times for the Naoki Prize. Around this time, his work in slapstick, fabulism, and metafiction began to attract a wide readership. In the 1980s, a twenty-fourvolume set of his complete works was published. He has since become active in cyber media, and in the summer of 1996 helped to set up JALInet, thefirst literary server in Japan. A member of Japan's Science Fiction Writers Association and PEN Club, he has received such literary prizes as the 1981 Izumi Kyoka award, the 1987 Tanizaki Jun'ichiro award, the 1989 Kawabata Yasunari Prize for Literature, the 1992 Japan SF Grand Prize, and the 1999 Yomiuri Prize for Literature. In 1997, he was awarded the rank of Chevalier des Arts and des Lettres by the French government. |
